For some reason, it’s easier to watch it when Jack does it, though I admit I had a hard time watching when in Season 2Jack “killed” the terrorist’s son to find out where the bomb was and in Season 3Jack killed Chapelle because he had no choice
I doubt I’ll be seeing it.
It’s a cross between lack of interest in seeing a 9/11 film when I was there on 9/11 and saw it first hand and the emotional compotnet. I got the emotional overload and burn out on 9/11. When that goes away, I’ll watch United 93.
And spare me the “Important” film stuff. I don’t go see films because they are “important”. I go see films because I feel they are something I’d be interested in watching, that I’d want to watch.
I didn’t see Brokeback Mountain. I didn’t see Passion of the Christ. And I didn’t see Farenheit 9/11. All “Important” films.
**Menocchio ** said almost exactly what I’d been thinking, just more eloquently than I would have put it.
Also, there is that some of the very early trailers for the movie and some people seem to imply that it is our duty as good Americans to go see United 93. I absolutely hate it when people tell me I have to do something that I know that I absolutely do not have to do. I do think that there are some duties that we have as American citizens, but going to see this movie is not one of them in my opinion.
A fan of 24 isn’t interested in seeing a film that takes place in real time about hijackers taking over a plane, and the passengers fighting back and eventually making the plane crash into the ground?
A film that has had astounding reviews, with fresh faces, by the guy who made “Bloody Sunday”?
What’s it take?
For me, it would have to be fiction. And Mr. Pundit would have to agree to sit through “Pride & Prejudice.”
Face it, United 93 is not a fun escape movie. It’s the opposite. Why wallow in the muck if you can help it?
Take your kids if they were too young to appreciate what was going on at the time.
And watch them never get on a plane again.
I think that it’s unnecessary for small children to try and process this event. A teenager who’s apathetic to the situation…MAYBE, but if they were too young to have the shit scared out of them on 9/11, I consider it a blessing.
I’ve never seen “Bloody Sunday”.
The difference is…24 isn’t real. United 93 is/was.
I look forward to watching Jack Bauer torture people. In real life, I’m very much againest torture.
what’s your point? I disagree with that reviewer too. I guess you can bring teens, but I don’t think it’s necessary to make sure your kids were as freaked out and horrified as you were?
My mom didn’t make me relive the Cuban Missle Crisis, but I understand the gravity of it.
Well then, spare me the “spare me this ‘important’ stuff” stuff.
You can’t dismiss the criterion of “importance” when you use it in your decision making process also.
If you’re going to scoff at the notion that movies should be seen for reasons outside their content, at least realize that you’re NOT seeing movies for reasons outside their content.
I’m baffled by the people saying they don’t want to watch a movie if it’s based on a true story. Surely some true stories fall into the “You can’t make this stuff up” category.
I really, really want to see it. Unfortunately, the only person I know who wants to see it is my younger sister, and she only wants to go on a weekend. My weekends have been way busy lately, so that isn’t gonna work. I might end up going myself or something, thought. Lately, my husband’s dislike of anything not based on some aspect of geekdom (comic books, scifi, Johnny Depp, hot chicks) has been pissing me off. . .
The point is getting teens & pre-teens (11 - 17 year olds) to understand the significance of that day. Is this really so hard to understand?
No, and I said twice I disagree with that. Maybe 16 or 17 year olds but 11? No. You posted a link to a quote by you about a reviewer. If a reviewer says the same thing as you it doesn’t automatically make it right.
To clarify something I said in the OP and someone quoted, it was Roger Ebert who said that “we live it.” I don’t think this has anything to do with whether it is fiction or non-fiction; the statement means that we live it as we “live” anything we view as audience members.
I’m still ambivelent. I know it will be hard to put myself through it. I waited several yeas before watching Schindler’s List, as someone else has already mentioned, because the component that it’s based on real events makes it a much harder film to watch. The movie “A Night to Remember” – though it didn’t have the benefit of all the special effects available to “Titanic” – is an extremely emotional movie. I cried the first time I saw it, not necessarily because of the skill of the filmmakers but because you’re aware that this very event (or something very much like it) actually happened.
But I do want to see it because it’s about a very significant event in our lives. I want to watch it because I’ll know better what the brave people who stormed the cockpit went through. It may not be documentary, but from Ebert’s review and what I’ve read here, it seems like it’s effective and close enough.
If you get the point, why ask what it is?
I wanted to know why you presented your previous post with an “ahem” as if you were saying “I have some facts to back up what I said”
You think kids should see the movie, I don’t. You can’t PROVE I’m wrong.
No, just redirecting you to a post you seemed to have missed. Sorry for the confusion.
I don’t know why you would have to think of it as a propaganda film. The director himself is on record re: the Iraq war as saying “It’s the most calamitous decision of our generation.” Is anything related to 9/11 automatically to be taken as pro-Iraq war propaganda now? Just because you or I hate the war in no way means we should lessen, downplay or just kind-of-not-talk-about the villainy of the murderous religious fanatics who committed these horrors. To do so is a tacit acknowledgment, I think, that Bush’s war in Iraq really is about 9/11 which it is not.
I know if I were to die at the hands of such monsters I would want the memory of the atrocity to stay alive. Even if some idiot hijacked the emotions of the event to further his own agenda.
In the end the truth will win out. The folks on United 93 were heroes not terribly unlike the men of the 1st Minnesota who fought at Gettysburg - launching a suicide attack into Confederate lines to buy the Union five minutes with witch to restore order. The people who parlayed the slaughter to help push for a senseless war will be judged less positively.